Venting structure for railway car

ABSTRACT

a closed top railway hopper car of a type which is pneumatically unloaded including a pressure relief valve arrangement which is supported underneath the car between spaced slope sheets of adjacent hoppers. The relief valve arrangement includes a pipe which projects upwardly through a slope sheet into the interior of the car adjacent the upper end thereof. The relief valve is located in a protected V-shaped space beneath the hoppers where it is readily accessable to the operator standing on the ground when pneumatic devices are utilized for discharging the material from the hopper car.



